Kyle Glispie

Kyle Glispie asked David Joy:

Hey David, I read your book Where all Light Tends to Go and it was one of my favorite reads! I was curious, do you have any recommendations? I Like Daniel Woodrell as well as similar authors such as Ron Rash, Cormac McCarthy, and really enjoy the Wiley Cash. If you get a minute and have a few recommendations, that would be greatly appreciated.

David Joy I'd add Larry Brown and William Gay to that list of Woodrell, Rash, and McCarthy. As far as contemporaries who are writing similarly, I love Donald Ray Pollock and Benjamin Whitmer. I think both of those writers are vastly underrated. Wiley's got a new one coming out this fall called The Last Ballad. Frank Bill also has a new one coming out called The Savage. Both of those ought to be good. Definitely check out Don and Ben, though, if you haven't. As far as which book by each, I'd start with the stories in Knockemstiff for Don and then move on to Devil All The Time and The Heavenly Table. With Ben, I love Cry Father, but Pike is also incredible!

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Corey Day

Corey Day asked David Joy:

Hey David, I went to your reading for a class at WCU last week, and I ended up really enjoying it. I now have a desire to read some literature from Western NC, but after finishing your book, I won't know where to look next. Could you suggest some author with books set in the area that I should read?

Penny

Penny asked David Joy:

I just read your review on My Sunshine Away and as I reviewed it as well, yours being way better of a review then mine, I immediately knew you were an author. I'm now very intrigued to read one of your books. Which book would you recommend I read first?

Gary

Gary asked David Joy:

David, there is a slight chance that you may remember my mentioning that the end of your novel reminded me of the end of Jim Thompson's "The Killer Inside Me," in which the narrator makes a similar choice. Do you remember this discussion? It was before the book was published, but I had an "advance copy." I am not sure that I remember my own reasoning now, but it may be that Thompson's protagonist had a different mo

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